Angélique Angarni-Filopon was elected Miss France 2025, this Saturday, December 14, succeeding Ève Gilles. This 34-year-old woman, originally from Fonds-Saint-Denis and Morne-Vert, in Martinique, was the oldest candidate in the competition. She becomes the oldest winner in history, on the occasion of the 95th edition.
Elected Miss Martinique 2024 last September, she proudly represented her island during the election of Miss France 2025, which was held at Futuroscope in Poitiers. “It’s an honor to stand before you. When I won the Miss Martinique competition, I told the people of Martinique that we were going to do it together. And we did it together! Thank you!”, she proclaimed, in tears, at the end of the deliberations. She beat Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2024, Sabah Aïb, aged only 18 years old.
Today a flight attendant, Angélique Angarni-Filopon began her career as a commercial advisor at Air France. This was followed by an experience at the AeroSchool, which allowed her to become a flight attendant for Air Caraibes, and one at Corsair, as a cabin crew.
A message to women “who have been told it’s too late”
It is necessary to note that the new winner had already participated in the competition. “14 years ago, I stood for the Miss Martinique election and became first runner-up.“, she indicated in an Instagram post a few days after her election.
If she was able to try her luck again, it is also because the Miss France committee has pushed back the age limit to 2022 to participate in the competition, according to Martinique La Première. Women over the age of 24 could not register until then.
This year, the thirty candidates in the final were aged 18 to 34. The candidacy of a 52-year-old woman, however, did not go beyond the regional level. “In 2011, a young woman aged 20 finished first runner-up in the Miss Martinique competition. Today, it is this same young woman aged 34 who stands before you to once again represent Martinique, its diaspora as well that all the women who were once told it was too late“, declared Angélique Angarni-Filopon during the ceremony.
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